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Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.-Edgar Allan Poe

Poetry is when emotion has found its thought and thought has found words--Robert Frost

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance--Carl Sandburg

I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry--John Cage

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you--Joseph Joubert

Poetry is what in a poem makes you laugh, cry, prickle, be silent, makes your toe nails twinkle, makes you want to do this or that or nothing, makes you know that you are alone in the unknown world, that your bliss and suffering is forever shared and forever all your own. ~Dylan Thomas

joybragi84
Sep 26, 20221 min read

Remember, Tomorrow Night, 5:00-7:00 PM, Wages Brewery in West Plains, Missouri!!!!!!!












Please do not forget that accomplished novelist Annie England Noblin will be signing copies of her new novel Christmas in Blue Dog Valley on Tuesday, September 27 from 5:00-7:00 PM at Wages Brewery in West Plains, Missouri. She has graciously invited me to set up a table with her and sign copies of my new book of poetry Atheists and Empty Spaces. Please come join us on this special occasion.

I went to Wages Brewery on Saturday and, for most people, the easiest way to find Wages Brewery is to get on the 63 bypass that goes by the West Plains race track and the Glass Sword Cinema movie theater headed east toward Koshkonong and Thayer. 63 business turns left at the last light going out of town (the traffic light right after the one at the movie theater). Go about a quarter of a mile down 63B and Wages will be on the right in a strip mall-type set up. It is pretty big and hard to miss.

I hope to see a lot of people there and make some new friends.

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I find that I cannot exist without Poetry--without eternal poetry--half the day will not do--the whole of it--I began with a little, but habit has made me a Leviathan.-John Keats

We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value.-T. S. Eliot

A man may praise and praise, but no one recollects but that which pleases.-George Gordon, Lord Byron

The great beauty of poetry is that it makes everything in every place interesting.-John Keats

Our faulty elder poets sacrificed the passion and passionate flow of poetry to the subtleties of intellect and to the stars of wit; the moderns to the glare and glitter of a perpetual, yet broken and heterogeneous imagery, or rather to an amphibious something, made up, half of image, and half of abstract meaning. The one sacrificed the heart to the head; the other both heart and head to point and drapery.-S. T. Coleridge

The purpose of rhythm, it has always seemed to me, is to prolong the moment of contemplation, the moment when we are both asleep and awake, which is the one moment of creation.-W. B. Yeats

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